{"id":61,"date":"2012-09-07T04:07:29","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T04:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodietales.com\/?p=61"},"modified":"2012-09-07T21:53:58","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T21:53:58","slug":"bahrs-landing-atlantic-highlands-new-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/foodietales.com\/?p=61","title":{"rendered":"Bahrs Landing – Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bahrs Landing
\n2 Bay Avenue Highlands, NJ 07732 (732) 872-1245<\/p>\n

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Across from Sandy Hook National Park, (yes there is a National Park in New Jersey and its beautiful!) is the strange town of Atlantic Highlands.\u00a0 I can\u2019t explain why it\u2019s strange it just is!\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ask anyone who\u2019s been there.\u00a0 One great reason to visit this strange place is Bahrs Landing a seafood restaurant that\u2019s been around forever.\u00a0 \u00a0My birthday is on January 2nd and trust me no one, not even my own mother, feels like celebrating. Sometimes even I don\u2019t want to, but my husband won\u2019t hear of it. So we go to Bahr\u2019s because its quiet and we can have the place to ourselves.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been there when storms are coming in and it\u2019s just \u00a0intoxicating. Makes me forget I\u2019m a year older! A little about the d\u00e9cor. \u00a0This is not a fancy place.\u00a0 It has a nautical theme with old wood floors, tables and chairs and paper for table cloths. The floor in the main dining room is slightly uneven, so be careful with the martini\u2019s. (Maybe that\u2019s the intoxicating feeling, but whatever.)\u00a0 There is a bar when you first come in, but I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever sat at it.\u00a0 They also have a small gift shop and sell tee shirts, mugs, etc and their own clam chowder.\u00a0 You can sit along the windows that overlook the marina on the Shrewsberry River that runs through Rumson. If Rumson sounds familiar it\u2019s because \u201cThe Boss\u201d lives there.\u00a0 A few years ago there were dolphins in the river (Yes dolphins in New Jersey waters)! Told you it was strange. They have an outside stand called Moby\u2019s that\u2019s open in the summer.\u00a0 The fried clams and lobster rolls are great. (You can also eat outside at the main restaurant.) There\u2019s an outdoor bar that\u2019s open in the summer. This place is mobbed on weekends in the summer.\u00a0 Go at your own risk. After you are seated your waitperson will bring drop biscuits with whipped butter and coleslaw. Our favorite thing to order is the large raw platter, 10 raw oysters, 10 raw clams,\u00a0 your pick on the size, briny and fresh, with 10 huge, cold, crispy shrimp cocktail.\u00a0 All served on a tray of crushed ice and sea salt.\u00a0 Heaven! \"\"<\/a> They have a smaller version if you want your own or are not gavones like we are! The tuna tower is excellent, as is the coconut shrimp, and they are known for their steamer clams, (piss clams in NJ) but the platter is my favorite.\u00a0 It\u2019s hard to eat more after this, but we always manage to devour more biscuits and a shared broiled seafood platter that has a mound of the best big belly fried clams. \"\"<\/a> I\u2019m not really a dessert person, so I can\u2019t comment on them. With the ever popular martini, and a bottle of wine the meal usually runs us $100 – $120.\u00a0 \"\"<\/a> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Not bad for the super fresh seafood you\u2019ll get.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Bahrs Landing 2 Bay Avenue Highlands, NJ 07732 (732) 872-1245       Across from Sandy Hook National Park, (yes there is a National Park in New Jersey and its beautiful!) is the strange town of Atlantic Highlands.\u00a0 I Continue reading Bahrs Landing – Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey<\/span>→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,6,4,16,9,12,15,14,8,7,10,13,11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/foodietales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/foodietales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/foodietales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foodietales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foodietales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"http:\/\/foodietales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":618,"href":"http:\/\/foodietales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foodietales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/foodietales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foodietales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foodietales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}